Quotes By Richard Bach

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.